Content
摘要
SNOMED CT® covers a broad range of content relevant to healthcare, including clinical findings, diseases, procedures, body structures, medications, substances, devices, organisms, specimens, assessment scales, and events. This provides a wide selection of clinical meanings that can be used to capture relevant information in a person’s health record. At the same time, SNOMED CT® provides a variety of levels of detail (or specificities), allowing a clinician to record coded data with as much or as little detail as is relevant at the time. This impressive breadth and depth is the reason SNOMED CT® is considered to be the most comprehensive clinical terminology in the world. This chapter explores the wide variety of content contained within SNOMED CT®.